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Are you looking for help getting experience to prepare for your career?
If you're looking for some help or guidance trying to figure out how to prepare for vet school or any animal related career, this page may be for you! The executive board members of this club have been kind enough to share their experiences in animal-related fields along with their contact information to help our members have a resource for guidance. Below are some of the experiences they have accumulated through their college careers thus far. Their emails and sites of experience are provided as well if you would like to talk with them about how they came across these opportunities, how it was helpful to them, and how you can get involved! Our executive board members are more than happy to help, so feel free to email them at their listed emails below, or me at Ashley Borden (borden.80@osu.edu) if you have any questions!
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PAST EXECUTIVE BOARD EXPERIENCES
EQUINE MANAGEMENT INTERNSHIP
DAIRY ASSISSTANT
Milked, fed, dehorned, vaccinated, calved, medicated, calf care, transported, hoof trimming and care, learned to operate heavy machinery, drying cows.
Location: OSU-ATI Campus in Wooster, OH
Type of Experience: Livestock & Poultry
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EQUINE MANAGEMENT INTERNSHIP
Location: Dublin, OH
Type of Experience: Equine
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Feeding, muck stalls, grooming, hoof care, foaling/foal watch, ultrasounds.
HEALING WATERS CANINE
Location: Canton, OH
Type of Experience: Companion
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Assissted with in water therapy for dogs with various medical consitions.
MIKAYLA GEORGE
Year: Graduated
Major: Animal Sciences
Type of Veterinarian she wants to be:
Large Animal
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Questions?
Email: george.837@osu.edu
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Exotic Animal Welfare and Behavior Study Abroad
VETERINARY ASSISSTANT
Exotic Animal Welfare and Behavior Study Abroad
One of eighteen students chosen to travel to South Africa to study and live among exotic animals. Learned and exhibited an understanding of exotic animal species behavior and welfare considerations in the context of: variation in environmental habitats (open range, controlled contact, and zoological settings), management of animal health and well-being, and comparisons with domesticated species. I got to experience exotics up-close and in a magnitude I never would have thought possible in a natural setting, and developed an incredible appreciation for these animals.
Location: South Africa
Type of Experience: Exotic
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VETERINARY ASSISSTANT
Location: Westpark Animal Emergency Hospital
Type of Experience: Companion
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Worked closely alongside many different vets and vet techs both to provide general practice routine care as well as during emergency hours to assist in high-risk procedures and cases. I got a really good insight into two very different sides of veterinary medicine. I also got to witness various surgeries ranging from routine spays and neuters to intense c-sections and TTA repairs. I learned how to work in the lab and perform various tests, take and analyze radiographs, and assist in unique emergency procedures.
Genome Biology Sequencing Lab
Location: OSU Center for Life Sciences Education
Type of Experience: Research
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DNA sequencing and analysis of bacteriophage genomes with a special emphasis on mycobacteriophage as part of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Science Education AlliancePHAGES program. A series of computer-based analyses were performed on a given genome sequence of a novel virus in order to understand the biology of the virus and to compare it with other viruses that infect the same host. Worked in groups to assemble and present a poster representing our research results at the Center for Life Sciences Education research forum among various undergraduate and graduate researchers.
NIKI CUSICK
Year: Graduated
Major: Animal Science
Type of Veterinarian she wants to be:
Companion animals with a specialty in orthopedics or opthomology
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Questions?
Email: cusick.43@osu.edu
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EQUINE MANAGEMENT INTERNSHIP
JADE
HETTICK
ANIMAL SCIENCE UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH EXPERIENCE PROGRAM
Location: oardc
Type of Experience: Livestock & Poultry, Research
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I conducted a ruminant nutrition experiment on lysophospholipids. Many different types of experiments were conducted throughout the project, including evaluation of NDF, ammonia concentration, methane, VFA concentrations, and protozoa.
BUTTERNUT FARM WILDCAT SANCTUARY VOLUNTEER
I assisted with many various tasks, including feeding the animals, washing down their pens, socializing with them, and cleaning up areas around the farm.
Location: Buternut Farm Wildcat Sanctuary
Type of Experience: Exotic
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RESEARCH ASSISSTANT
Location: Physiology Laboratory
Type of Experience: Livestock & Poultry, Research
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I performed different procedures including PCRs and DNA extractions, and was taught how to operate the computer program associated with the PCRs.